[U-Boot] [Patch] ./net/net.c - make Microsoft dns servers happy with random_port() numbers

Robin Getz rgetz at blackfin.uclinux.org
Mon Mar 8 20:07:00 CET 2010


For some reason, (which I can't find any documentation on), if U-Boot
gives a port number higher than 17500 to a Microsoft DNS server, the 
server will reply to port 17500, and U-Boot will ignore things (since 
that isn't the port it asked the DNS server to reply to).

This fixes that by ensuring the random port number is less than 17500.

Signed-off-by:  Robin Getz <rgetz at blackfin.uclinux.org>

---
 net/net.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/net.c b/net/net.c
index 595abd9..98d58e5 100644
--- a/net/net.c
+++ b/net/net.c
@@ -1872,11 +1872,13 @@ void copy_filename (char *dst, char *src, int size)
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_CMD_NFS) || defined(CONFIG_CMD_SNTP) || 
defined(CONFIG_CMD_DNS)
 /*
- * make port a little random, but use something trivial to compute
+ * make port a little random (1024-17407)
+ * This keeps the math somewhat trivial to compute, and seems to work with
+ * all supported protocols/clients/servers
  */
 unsigned int random_port(void)
 {
-	return 1024 + (get_timer(0) % 0x8000);;
+	return 1024 + (get_timer(0) % 0x4000);
 }
 #endif
 


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